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Reading Kafka shouldn’t be a Kafkaesque experience, says Alexander
Starritt in his introduction to his new selection of stories that are “as
good as anything ever written by anyone.”
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*John Self* @john_self <https://twitter.com/john_self> 9m9 minutes ago
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Starritt in his intro to this collection says that the stories are where
it’s at with Kafka, not the novels (The Trial, etc). Gabriel Josipovici
went further in the brevity oneupmanship, saying Kafka’s aphorisms were the
heart of his work.
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*John Self* @john_self <https://twitter.com/john_self> 8m8 minutes ago
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My Kafka aphorism (Kafkorism?) of choice is the one colloquially
translated as: “In the battle between you and the world, back the world.”
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